Get SMS Delivery Confirmations On Your Jailbroken iPhone Pushed To You

If you’ve ever texted from an area with spotty cell reception, you’ll notice that the iPhone doesn’t tell you if an SMS failed — it just expects you to check back in a few minutes to confirm the message went through. That’s annoying. With SMSConfirmation, you can get notifications that your message actually has been sent.

I would imagine it’d get equally annoying to get delivery notifications for every single text you ever send, which is what’s going to happen, because SMSConfirmation doesn’t have an on-off switch. To disable it you have to completely uninstall the Cydia tweak. Still, if you’re often losing texts and having to go back and re-send them, it’s very useful.

SMSConfirmation: Get Push Notifications For SMS Delivery Report On iPhone [Addictive Tips]

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iPhone 4S Users, Watch Your Siri Usage

Siri, the iPhone 4S voice recognition assistant, is very useful! But if you’ve got a low-level data plan, you should be careful. Ars Technica ran some tests and found that if you use it 10-15 times a day, you’re going to use about 27MB a month.

Of course the number of queries you use will be dependent on your phone usage. Some days you’ll use basically none, and others you’ll plow through a bunch because you’re out and doing things. The problem comes from the fact that Siri sends data for every query, because the language processing happens remotely instead of just on the phone.

27MB a month isn’t much, and if you don’t use data a lot anyway, even if you’re on the 200MB plan, you won’t have to worry. But if you’re already bumping up against your cap and you’re also a frequent Siri user, it’s something to keep in mind.

“Siri, how much data do you gobble up in a month?” Ars investigates [Ars TEchnica via Techland]

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